{"id":16335,"date":"2023-10-27T04:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:04:42","slug":"mepsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mepsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Management &#038; Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Council (MEPSC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Management &amp; Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Council (MEPSC)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MEPSC is a horizontal Sector Skill Council (SSC)\u00a0incorporated\u00a0as a Section-8 (Not for Profit Company) under the Companies Act, 2013, in a one of its kind,\u00a0Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.<\/li>\n<li>The Council has been\u00a0working\u00a0under the\u00a0tutelage of the Ministry of Skill Development.<\/li>\n<li>It is being\u00a0promoted by All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body of management profession in India,\u00a0as its sole promoter.<\/li>\n<li>MEPSC\u00a0is a recognised awarding body by the skills regulator, the\u00a0National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET),\u00a0and is\u00a0supported by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).<\/li>\n<li>MEPSC is\u00a0targeting to train and certify approximately 4.75 lakh trainees,\u00a0develop and frame\u00a050 Qualifications Packs (QPs)\/National Occupational Standards\u00a0(NOS), and\u00a0train more than 550 trainers\u00a0over the next 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>MEPSC shall be\u00a0leading skill development initiatives\u00a0in five key segments namely\n<ul>\n<li>Training and Assessment<\/li>\n<li>Office Management<\/li>\n<li>Professional skills (including Security)<\/li>\n<li>Non-Teaching job roles in the education Sector<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The MEPSC\u00a0Board is comprised of several equally renowned and experienced\u00a0business leaders, academicians, NSDC, AIMA, and\u00a0Ministry officials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about All India Management Association (AIMA)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AIMA was created as an\u00a0apex body of the management profession with the active support of the Government of India and Industry in 1957.<\/li>\n<li>AIMA is a\u00a0not-for-profit, non-lobbying organisation,\u00a0working closely with industry, government, academia,\u00a0and students to further the cause of the management profession in India.<\/li>\n<li>AIMA has a\u00a0membership base of over 38,000 members and close to\u00a06,000 corporate \/institutional members through\u00a067 Local Management Associations\u00a0affiliated with AIMA.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0represented\u00a0on a number of\u00a0policy-making bodies of the Government of India and national associations.<\/li>\n<li>AIMA\u00a0offers various services in the\u00a0areas of testing, distance education, skill development &amp; training, research, publications, executive education, and management development programmes.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from its\u00a0flagship Post Graduate Diploma in management, AIMA\u00a0offers topical and industry-oriented programmes\u00a0and initiatives\u00a0to help\u00a0management professionals and students\u00a0keep in step with the times while offering state of the art business solutions for organisations and institutions.<\/li>\n<li>AIMA is frequently\u00a0co-opted by the Government on specialised committees.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>AIMA is an\u00a0active member of the Asian Association of Management Organisations (AAMO), which is the Asia-Pacific regional body of the World Management Council (CIOS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)?<\/h3>\n<p>National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated on July 31, 2008 under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 . NSDC was set up by the Ministry of Finance as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. NSDC aims to promote skill development by catalyzing creation of large, quality and for-profit vocational institutions. Further, the organisation provides funding to build scalable and profitable vocational training initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/business\/business\/management-amp-entrepreneurship-and-professional-skills-council-mepsc-and-magic-bus-india-foundation-signs-mou-to-equip-and-empower-youth20231026143101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Management &amp; Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Council (MEPSC) and Magic Bus India Foundation signs MoU to Equip and Empower Youth\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management &#038; Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Council is a recognised awarding body by the skills regulator, the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}